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Looking for some suggestions, pub wise, around the Bank or Liverpool Street area. Could stretch a bit further I suppose. Good ale is a must. The thinly veiled is going to the Chinese visa office for a visa application, so somewhere nearish to there?

Crown and Shuttle up towards Shoreditch is great and does half a dozen nice ales and loads of craft beer (good food too - try the Worcestershire sauce fries). Water Poet is nice too. Down Gracechurch Street there's a huge Spoons called the Crosse Keys which has 20 ales on tap, it's a nice pub though obviously full of City boys come 6pm.

There are some brilliant historic pubs pretty much right on top of the visa office, although you might need a map to find them as they are in the original city alley streets. I would particularly recommend The Jamaica Wine House (the oldest pub in The City they reckon) or Old Doctor Butler's Head (which is a Shepherd's Neame so depends on whether you like their beers or not).

Cheers for the heads up! I always think SN maintain the best boozers out of the big breweries. Always feel like old school proper pubs - nice and cosy but without any of the modern ponce which goes with most pubs which appear these days.

As I said though, they have to be serving one of the beers I actually like. I'm not drinking Spitfire or Bishop's Finger all night...